Sheet-registering device for platen printing-presses.



H. HONIGMANN. SHEET REGISTERING DEVICE FOR PLATEN PRINTING PRESSES. APPLICATION HLED APR. 9. 1914. Patented July 20, 1915.

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1 1 7 56 Patented July 20,1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- HANS HONIGIYIAHH, 0F D'U'LUTH, IHNNESQTA. SHEET-REGISTERING DEVICE FOR PLATEN PRINTING-PEESSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July on, 1915.

Application filed April 9, 1914. Serial R0. 830,729.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Hans Homonmnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Registering Devices for Platen Printing-Presses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing. 7

My invention relates to improvements in sheet registering devices for platen printing presses,

The object of my invention is to provide a device of this character adapted to be used in connection with automatic sheet feeders for platen printing presses such as shown in my Patents 970,822 dated September 20, 1910, and 1,074,720 dated October 7, 1913 which will insure of registering the vertical position of the sheet on the platen and, at the same time, to insure true alinement, vertically of the sheets to be printed, on the platen.

Another object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap and effective device of this character which can be readily applied to the feeders of the character heretofore described and capable of ready adjustment to suit the various requirements of such a device.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation diagrammatically shown of a reciprocating feeder showing my device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the outersheet registering arm.

' Referring now to the drawings in which like reference numerals designate similar parts, 1 represents the ordinary pivotally mounted platen'commonly used on platen printing presses and carries the conveyor belt 2 which is adapted to receive the printed sheets from the platen of the press and conveying them rearwardly to be stacked as is readily understood by those skilled in the art.

The frame 3 of the feeding mechanism carries a longitudinally arranged track or groove 4, in which the reciprocating carriage 5 operates. The carriage 5 has pivotally connected thereto the reciprocating feeding arms 6 which extend forwardly and are adapted to feed the sheets of paper to and from the press as is fully illustrated in the patents above referred to and need no furbackward andforward by means of the track 7 mounted thereon and which is in turn actuated by a gear driven by a connection with the press and imparting a hackward and forward motion to the track to cause the feeding arms to reci rocate, to feed the sheets of paper to an I from the platen of the press.

The main shaft 8 of the nism is provided with two cams 9 and 10 and carried by the feeding mechanism frame. Mounted within the feeding mechanism frame 3 forward of the shaft 8 is a. fixed shaft 11 upon which is rigidly mounted a casting having the two rearwardly extending arms 12 and 13. The arm 12 extends slightly npwardly and terminates at a point close to the shaft 8 and pivotally mounted upon the extreme end thereof is a. crank 14 having the short arm 15 upon the end of which is mounted the roller 16 which hears against the earn 9 open the shaft 8. The arm 13 extends in a downwardly direction from the shaft 11 and has pivotally connected at its outer end 13' an arm 17 which extends upwardly and carries a roller 18, which is monnted upon its extreme upper end and said roller bears against the cam 10. Pivotally connected to the outer end of the arm 17 is a horizontally arranged arm 19. onnected to the end 13' of the arm 13 is an outwardly and slightly upwardlv inclined arm 20 to the outer end of which is connected a spring 21 the opposite end of this spring being connected to the arm 17 intermediate its end which will maintain a constant pressure of the roller 18 carried thereby upon the cam 10. This spring also causes a pressure through the arms 12 and 13 to cause the roller 16 to hear upon the cam 9. It will also he seen that the-arms 14 and 19 of my device will be actuated or moved forward by the rotation of the shaft 8 and the engagement of the cams 9 and 16 with the rollers 16 and 18 carried by the arm 17 and the arm 15, respectively. a

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7. The combination with a sheet feeding device for platen ing reciprocating fee er arms adapted to feed the sheets to and from the platen of the press, two continuously rotating cams carried by the feeding device, a crank arm mounted upon the feeding device and adapted to oscillate a second crank arm pivoted to one end of the first crank arm intermediate its end, one end of said second crank arm engaging one Uf the cams, the opposite end extending horizontally, a link 7 adjustably connected to the end of said horizontal portion of the second crank arm, a

sheet registering arm having the link connected thereto below its upper end, a crank connected to the lower end of the first crank arm and adapted to engage the second cam intermediate its ends, said crank having a horizontal portion, a sleeve horizontally adjustable thereon, and the upper end of the sheet registering arm pivotally connected to said sleeve, and sheet engaging members carried by the lower end of said sheet registering arm, whereby the sheet is registered in its horizontal position upon the sheet feeding arms and on the platen of the press substantially as shown and described.

8. Thecombination with a feeder for a printing press having reciprocating arms adapted to feed the sheets of paper to and from the platen of the press, of an oscillating arm adapted to register the vertical position of the sheets on the feeder arm and means for oscillating said arm Whereby the sheets are centered upon the platen of the press substantially as shown'and described.-

9. The combination with a sheet feeding device for a platen printing press having reciprocating feeder arms adapted to feed the sheets of paper to and from-the platen rinting presses havof the press, an oscillating arm carried by the feeding device and having means at its lower end for engaging the sheet on the reciprocating feeding arms, and having a second sheet engaging member rigidly carried thereby and means carried by the feeding device for oscillating said arm, whereby the same is adapted to register the horizontal position of the sheets on the platen of the press substantially as shown and described.

he combination with a feeding device for a platen printing press, having reciprocating feeder arms adapted to feed the sheets of paper to and from the platen of the press, an oscillating arm carried by the feeder and having a sheet engaging member at its lower end, a roller carried by the arm above the sheet engaging member, and an upward and outward curved lug carried by the arm opposite the roller and means car'- ried by the feeding device for oscillating the arm for registering the horizontal position of the sheets on the platen of the press substantially as shown and described.

11. The combination with a feeding device for a platen printing press having reciprocating feeding arms adapted to feed the sheets of paper to and from the press,

two rotating cams carried by the feeder, an

arm carried by the feeder and adapted to oscillate a crank intermediately pivoted to the upper end of the arm, and having one end engaging with one of the cams and its opposite end extending horizontally forward, a second crank pivotally connected to the lower end of the arm and adapted to engage the other cam intermediate its end, and having a horizontal forward extending portion, a rigid arm carried by the lower end of the arm, a spring connected to the saidarm and to the second crank, a spring pressed sleeve horizontally movable upon the horizontal portion of the second crank, a centering arm pivotally connected to said sleeve, a link connected to the centering arm and having its inner end pivotally connected to the outer end of the first crank, sheet engaging members carried by the lower end of the arm for registering the horizontal position of the sheets on the platen of the press and means for operating the cams substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aliix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HANS HONIGMANN. Witnesses-z CHARLES F. CoUnRnY, EMERSON W. BAKER. 

